damn that’s clean - time for me to update mine a bit
(des)mosthenes
pragmatic, multidisciplinary creative & full stack dev. I tweet & make art, dev, design, politics; play path of exile. https://marko.tech/
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta's Muse AI now has an Apple Watch app, which you shouldn't installEnglish
21·2 days agothat shit is inside every app now - fuckers
doing my part, i’ve converted three to bazzite in the last three months too
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politics @lemmy.world•‘Just Stop!’ Trump Bashed By Everyone from Megyn Kelly to Jake Tapper for Crying Voter Fraud After a Week of (Mostly) Accepting the Results
4·3 days agopretty - they’re quoting journalists at least. reader mode ftw though
It took a week, but President Donald Trump is now suggesting the 2026 election was riggedagainst Republicans — despite many of the votes being held in states run by the GOP.
“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday. “How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”
Election data specialists such as Nate Silverargued the polls the showed the exact oppositeof what Trump claims they did — Silver’s final pre-election forecast gave Democrats an 80 percent chance to win control of the Senate, and a 96 percent chance to take the House.
Numerous times over the past week, Trump has said he accepts the election results. But he has also shared posts from others on Truth Socialquestioning the outcome.
But now, he appears to be going all in on election denialism — even if the nature of the conspiracy he’s suggesting is unclear. Critics called out the bizarre notion that the GOP would allow elections to be rigged against them in states they totally control — such as Texas.
“Ah yes the diabolical conspiracy in Texas to deliver the state to Democrats, led by the heads of the state … GOP Governor [Greg] Abbott and … Attorney General [Ken] Paxton who … lost,” wrote CNN’s Jake Tapper on X.
Ah yes the diabolical conspiracy in Texas to deliver the state to Democrats, led by the heads of the state…. GOP Governor Abbot and … Attorney General Paxton who …. lost…. pic.twitter.com/vMbLHSNqm1
— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) November 9, 2026
“Just stop,” added Megyn Kelly.
Just stop. pic.twitter.com/bl0FiqAdsu
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 9, 2026
Here’s a sampling of the broader reaction to Trump’s claims:
can we not again pic.twitter.com/FqRY6vrDVB
— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 9, 2026
This was so inevitable. https://t.co/O5ct30OZum
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) November 9, 2026
Lather, rinse, repeat https://t.co/CdIUw618Xg
— Alyssa Farah Griffin (@Alyssafarah) November 9, 2026
Trump, without citing any credible evidence, continues to cast doubt on the midterm election results.
“Does anybody really believe that this “Election" was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong???” https://t.co/hiQCdyTE0Tpic.twitter.com/G8FNdd8ENm
— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) November 9, 2026
Heart’s just not in it this time https://t.co/wqpychQPuu
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) November 9, 2026
Pattern continues: Trump signaling conciliatory demeanor in media interviews but pushing nonsense fraud narratives to the base. pic.twitter.com/6KolqAyIgs
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 9, 2026
There is no evidence of fraud in last week’s midterm elections.
None of the dozens of Republican lawmakers who lost reelection are contesting the results.
But now President Trump is posting this ⬇️
Election officials and poll workers across the country worked their butts off… pic.twitter.com/2UYLXa98lk
— Taylor Popielarz (@TaylorPopielarz) November 9, 2026
Now the “stolen election” idiocy is starting.
Trump can’t admit his policies fucked the midterms. Nothing is ever his fault. So now the accusation is that red states cheated against themselves.
And it’s a dumb allegation. FL went red statewide but lost congressional seats.…
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) November 9, 2026
Idk. It all feels pretty flaccid. Nobody *actually* thinks these results are nefarious, and it seems like there’s a lot of impatience on the right with anyone suggesting these losses were due to fraud and not policy. Even Trump seems to be offering this as an afterthought. https://t.co/CIJ4JJartR
— Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul) November 9, 2026
Last week the Republicans got thrashed because he wasn’t on the ballot.
Now it’s because the result was rigged.
Trump: Always cheated, never defeated https://t.co/rDbPgWYxQh
— Kevin Schofield (@KevinASchofield) November 9, 2026
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Technology@lemmy.world•Apple’s New CEO Is Reportedly Pushing to Stuff More AI into iPhonesEnglish
2·4 days agoyou’re probably right. but probably also tim’s retirement
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Technology@lemmy.world•Apple’s New CEO Is Reportedly Pushing to Stuff More AI into iPhonesEnglish
131·4 days agoyea he’s dropping the ball with everything he’s announced and released since taking over. steve is rolling in his grave with the touch screen, folding phone, ai, price increases, shitty operating system redesigns, etc
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Technology@lemmy.world•The Enough Phone is made by and for people fed up with big screensEnglish
291·6 days agoThe Enough Phone is made by and for people fed up with big screens
Nov 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM EST
It’s a bad time and maybe also a great time to make a new smartphone.
Brennan Jordan and Austin Boer are two-thirds of the trio behind the Enough Phone, a small phone that will run your choice of stock Android or the minimalist OdysseyOS. They’re currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, and just a day after launching, the project is over halfway to its $250,000 goal.
The Enough Phone’s target specifications include a 5.3-inch display, 3,500mAh user-replaceable battery, MediaTek Dimensity 7500 chipset, a 50-megapixel Sony sensor in the rear camera, and 8GB of RAM. The dimensions listed on the Kickstarter page suggest an iPhone Mini-ish size; Jordan and Boer also happen to be former iPhone Mini users themselves.
This prototype unit shows the user-removable back plate that will allow for simple battery swaps.
Photo: Enough Phone
The two of them cofounded a software startup called Sleke, which sells refurbished phones loaded with OdysseyOS, their minimalist, low-distraction version of Android. Putting the software on existing phones is a win for sustainability, but it also helps them get their software to market faster, Boer tells me. The pair offers small batches of Pixel 8 and 9 phones right now through the Sleke website, but the large devices didn’t feel quite right to some customers.
“One of the biggest things that we get is, ‘I don’t want this large of a phone for a minimal operating system,’” says Boer. They’d wanted to make a small phone, and the opportunity arrived when Will Stults approached them about creating one. Stults operates an online store for non-smartphones called Dumbwireless. He also brings familiarity with the smartphone manufacturing process to the mix thanks to some previous work with a “big” phone brand.
But hardware is hard in the best of times, and 2026 has proven extremely challenging for phone companies big and small. The chip shortage has driven prices up and made RAM scarce. Jordan and Boer are feeling the pressures, particularly around pricing. The Kickstarter campaign offers some discounts for early backers, but after that the Enough Phone will sell for $599. “We don’t want to be charging as much as we are,” says Boer, “but as a startup you can only do so much.” They’re a self-funded operation and want to keep it that way, he says, so they can choose their own priorities. Outside funding would change the dynamic and might put pressure on them to shorten their promised five years of software support or cut other costs.
As it stands, the project is on schedule. According to the Kickstarter page, it’s in the production tooling phase, with plans to ship phones to customers in May 2027 — though a footnote says that the RAM shortage’s “ripple effects across the entire electronics manufacturing industry” could still throw a wrench in the works.
Prospects for small phone fans (disclosure: I am one) were bleak even before the chip crisis. Apple’s last Mini was released five years ago, and there’s no indication of another one in sight. Asus’ Zenfone used to be a nice, small-ish Android option before the company made it bigger and quit selling it in the US. Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky made a lot of noise about launching a small phone, but has since shifted priorities. And there’s Unihertz’s Jelly Max — certainly small, but its specs lag behind a modern midrange phone.
Boer sees this gap as an opportunity, even in the midst of a global RAM crisis. “Nobody was doing it, and we’re kind of seeing why — because it’s not the ideal time to start. But that also kind of makes it the ideal time to start, because no one else is doing it,” he says. “Let’s just do it ourselves.” Enough is enough. At least that’s what they’re hoping.
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politics @lemmy.world•‘A Republican will never sniff the White House ever again’ if Texas stays blue: Jesse Watters
14·7 days agoor if the electoral college is replaced with popular voting
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News@lemmy.world•Trump signs proclamation to try to prevent changes to gold-covered Oval Office
14·7 days agothe proclamation would ensure the West Wing rooms would not be “touched by anybody, destroyed, ripped down by stupid people, in order to build something in a slightly different shape”.
the irony isn’t lost on me - it’s always projection with incompetent fools
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World News@lemmy.world•Iranians burn giant poster of Trump and Netanyahu, demand revengeEnglish
18·8 days agowe should be doing that in the US as well
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politics @lemmy.world•Gov. Greg Abbott concedes to Gina Hinojosa in stunning Texas upset
14·9 days agohoping they investigate his grifts now
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Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Sums it up quite precisely
4·11 days agoI didn’t create this, was sent it via text message
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Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Sums it up quite precisely
14·11 days agowooooowwwww
just about right
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Technology@lemmy.world•Alphabet shares record their worst day ever, shedding $500 billion in valueEnglish
181·14 days agoit’ll be back next week; they’re a blue chip and will probably start injecting ads into ai anyway
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Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit is becoming "a logged-in-only experience"English
2·14 days agospread the word







no one judging here ^^